Football vs. War

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FOOTBALL VS. WAR When the word football comes up, most people just see it as a sport. But what is interesting is that football is like warfare. In ancient China, soldiers were trained with the basics of what we see now; football. Their training describes a sport that was used to train the soldiers at that time and it included kicking a leather ball through hoops. This was supposedly there to train the soldiers in the art of precision and made them be better warriors. This was later evolved into a game that was played between two opposing teams, which most kids played around on the streets of China. Even if we look at the modern version of our football game today, we can find many elements that relate it as a war-like scenario. They are two very different things, yet they seem very alike. The very first similarity between football and war is that they both have “players” that participate in the battle. Both in football and in a war or battle there are two opposing sides. A battle might have three opposing sides but that is a rare occurrence. After the “battle” ends between the opposing sides, one side ultimately emerges as a victor or winner while the other side is defeated. They both have the same objective and that objective is to defeat the other side. They both engage in fighting. They play or “battle” with everything they have. In a war, their lives are at stake but in football the players play for their reputation, money, fame, and so on. Both in a war and in the game of football, the event takes place on a field. A field where the sport takes place is one-hundred yards long and this constitutes the boundaries inside which the “battle” takes place. In a battle or war there is no designated length. But there are confined areas where battles are to take place and those are outside of cities, towns, and villages. One of the many things that make

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